Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Purpose of conversations ?

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From: "Michael Lum" <mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:52:06 -0700
You must also ship:

CONF/ghr_ovl.dat.proto

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> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Morriss
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:14 PM
> To: Ethereal development
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Purpose of conversations ?
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Lum wrote:
> > OK maybe I have misunderstood the purpose of conversations.
> > 
> > I would like to string together packets containing SCCP Class 2 
> > (connection
> > oriented)
> > messages.
> > 
> >>From the display I would like to highlight a packet and then find
> > all of the associated packets automatically.
> > 
> > Is this what conversations are for?
> 
> My understanding is that conversations are used to store some data 
> associated with a "conversation" so that subsequent messages in that 
> conversation have that data associated with them.
> 
> For example, in SCCP Class 2 only the first couple of messages have 
> Called and Calling party addresses.  Subsequent DATA messages 
> only have 
> SLR/DLR so using a display filter of "sccp.called.ssn == N" 
> won't match 
> them (the DATA messages).  If, however, those DATA mesages 
> were part of 
> a conversation _and_ the data stored for that conversation 
> contained the 
> Called party SSN then the above filter would work.
> 
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